汉密尔顿的美国 Hamilton's America(2016)
导演: Alex Horwitz
主演: 林-曼努尔·米兰达 巴拉克·奥巴马 乔治·W· 布什 Paul Ryan Andy Blankenbuehler Ariana DeBose 戴维德·迪格斯 吉米·法伦 Joanne Freeman Timothy Geithner 芮妮·戈兹贝里 乔纳森·格罗夫 克里斯·杰克逊 贾思敏·赛法斯·琼斯 托马斯·凯尔 阿米尔-卡利布·汤普森 纳西尔·琼斯 米歇尔·奥巴马 小莱斯利·奥多姆 奥基里特·奥诺多瓦 亨利·保尔森 安东尼·拉莫斯 史蒂芬·桑德海姆 菲莉帕·苏 Tariq Trotter 伊丽莎白·沃伦 芭芭拉·史翠珊
类型: 纪录片
制片国家/地区: 美国
上映日期: 2016-10-21(美国)
片长: 82分钟 IMDb: tt6146460 豆瓣评分：9.4 下载地址：迅雷下载
简介：
- 探索百老汇大热门舞台剧《汉密尔顿》的台前幕后以及相关的历史故事。
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影评：
尚显凌乱的公寓中， 《汉密尔顿》的主演从冰箱中取出一罐饮料，谈到了自己刚刚出生两个星期的孩子，还有即将开始的音乐剧《汉密尔顿》的排练。“就像汉密尔顿在约克郡战役前一样”，他如此形容既忐忑不安又野心勃勃的自己。这几乎是该片不断重复的手法，将当下人物的处境和历史上的汉密尔顿不断进行对比，让后者的形象映射到当代美国人身上。
本片很多片中，《汉密尔顿》的演员和主创人员拜访汉密尔顿，华盛顿和伯尔曾经工作，生活的场所，参观他们曾使用的器物。每个角色的饰演者也被安排了谈该历史人物的性格，情感。本片和音乐剧的成功之处，并非是用年轻人喜闻乐见的嘻哈讲述汉密尔顿的生平，而是在历史人物亚历山大·汉密尔顿和现今美国人之间建立一种情感和理解的纽带。
对稍微学习过美国历史的人而言，乔治·华盛顿，托马斯·杰斐逊，亚历山大·汉密尔顿，詹姆斯·麦迪逊这些名字的伟大似乎毋庸多言。但是联系到不久前，弗吉尼亚大学的教授写信要求校长不要再引用该大学建立者托马斯·杰斐逊的话，以及发生在夏洛茨维尔的推倒李将军雕像的运动，似乎如何看待国父们，已经成为美国当今社会的一个新问题。正如特朗普总统提出的问题：难道有朝一日，我们也要推倒华盛顿和杰斐逊的塑像吗？
有瑕疵的伟人，历史局限性，这些说法已经老生常谈。问题不在于象牙塔中的历史研究者如何评价国父们的功过是非，而在于随着时间的流逝，对大多数普通美国人而言，国父们只不过是冰冷的塑像，课文上枯燥的名字，社交网络上的恶搞对象，带着奴隶主这样的标签。现今社会上的美国人已经越来越失去可对国父们共情的纽带。 如今的世界第一帝国和18世纪晚期初生的稚嫩国家已经如此不同，在时间长河的此岸遥望18世纪末期， 只能看见一个无法理解的朦胧影子，国父们的所思所想，喜怒哀乐已经全然无法理解。从理智上，你能理解他们的局限性；但是从情感上，他们很多观点不容于美国社会当代价值观，因而 显得 多少有点可恶和陌生。
本片本质上依然是对国父帖标签式，断章取义的理解。创作者从一众国父中精心挑选出了亚历山大·汉密尔顿。 在美国建立者中，汉密尔顿来自加勒比地区，从不名一文开始奋斗有了今天的成就；他不是奴隶主，而是废奴主义者；一切都很政治正确，都很美国梦。创作者和观众们皆大欢喜，一个半小时的影片中不用分出太多时间反思自己国家历史上最丑陋的一页。至于汉密尔顿的君主制倾向，似乎不成为一个问题，毕竟，当前美国社会的痛点是种族矛盾，而不是一位要加冕为王的总统。于是汉密尔顿被打上了“移民”和“奋斗者”的标签，几百年后的观众和演员从这两个标签中找到了共鸣，找到了美国梦的一脉传承的证据，找到了对合众国设计者的情感纽带。
这就是大火的音乐剧是《汉密尔顿》，而不是《华盛顿》和《杰斐逊》的原因。 主创人员说，他在阅读《汉米尔顿》传记的时候，感觉被一下子抓住了，好像是汉密尔顿本人从书里出来要求他拍出这样一部音乐剧。这是真诚的，因为对汉密尔顿的选择并非是个别人有意识的行为，而是当今美国社会的种族，人员构成的自然选择。试想，又有多少移民和黑人能从《华盛顿》和《杰斐逊》的传记中读出共鸣呢？
但对国父们的评价，并不仅仅是对人物本身，而是对整个国家的意识形态来源的一次梳理和回顾。对汉密尔顿的描写也许激发了移民和奋斗者的认同。但这依然无法回避，当代美国人如何看待交织着奴隶制的美国建国史的问题，我们知道，国父毕竟不止一位。
“And sometimes, a couple of days, I’ve written in Aaron Burr's bedroom. It’s pretty amazing to be in the space where he was in the later of his life. Talk about artist in residence-literally.”
“This is one of those nights where you feel the earth shake a little bit, you feel the world start to change. This is opening night of Hamilton.”
“I have never in my life witnessed a musical that has penetrated the American culture faster than Hamilton.”
“After the first two songs, I looked at my wife, and we were like, ‘This might be the greatest thing, like, we’ve ever seen ever.’ And you kind of look around at the other people sitting there, like, ‘Are we right?’ Like, ‘This is the best thing that’s...right?’ We’re all on the same...but you can’t say that cause people are casting and performing, but you’re almost in tears.”
“What Lin was able to do is create different styles for each character. So, George Washington raps in this very sort of metronomic way because that is similar to how he thinks. It’s all right on beat. You know, Lafayette has to figure it out. Lafayette is rapping in a real, like, simple, sort of like early-‘80s rap cadence at first and then, by the end, is doing these crazy double- and triple- time things.”
“I’ve read ‘The Federalist papers’ many times over. As an elected official, as a person who takes office, by swearing oath to the Constitution, I pretty much want to know what that means, right? And so it’s important not only to understand what the Constitution is, but to understand what the principles are behind it. And that’s why you look at Hamilton. That’s why you look at ‘The Federalist Papers’. That is the cornerstone of this beautiful idea we call the American experiment.”
“I’m not a really bright student in the history department. I’ve learned so much from this musical that I wouldn’t have normally learned in a history class. And for you guys to convey history in the manner that you did - was that your initial goal, to inspire kids like me?”
“You might find a world there to unlock. And after the performance, I think all of us understand not only how much potential it had, but what it did was capture the fact that, you know, the founding fathers were, to some degree, flying by the seats of their pants and making it up as they went along. And the fact that the experiment worked was a testimony to their genius. And you can draw a direct connection between what the founders were doing and what we do today.”
“Hamilton has to create much of the federal government from scratch - first budget systems, first tax systems, first customs service, first Coast Guard, first monetary policy, first central bank, which was the direct forerunner of the Federal Reserve.”
“These are not perfect people. These are deeply flawed people. But they make contributions.”
“These were real people who lived and died. I think one of the things we really tried to do with the show is show them all as flawed. There’s no saints in this show, not a one.”
“I think that our show is doing a really good job of reminding us that all of us are more than one thing.”
“How much time do we get on this Earth? We don’t know. They don’t tell us at the outset how much time we get. It’s something I’ve been sort of grappling with and terrified with. I think we all grapple with it, with the paradox of knowing tomorrow’s not promised, but making plans anyway.”
“Hamilton is one of the more uniquely American founders because this man came from nothing and rose to the highest levels of serving this country. He proved, the condition of your birth should not determine the outcome of your life.”
“It wasn’t easy to get to where we are today. But it was dictated by and led by a vision. We’re a blessed nation to have had our founders - such remarkable men.”
“I think when faced with the incredible three lifetimes Hamilton lived while he was on this Earth, it forces you to reckon with, ‘Well, what am I doing with my life?’ That’s the thing you’re always up against when you’re writing something that’s big.”
“I knew that Hamilton was gonna change my life. But I didn’t anticipate how much we’d help Hamilton’s legacy in turn. Not just Hamilton but also Eliza, for whom Hamilton’s legacy was so important.”
“I feel like Hamilton chose me. He reached out of the Chernow book and grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go until I told his story. You can’t manufacture another Hamilton. Hamilton is singular, the man and the creation of the show. I feel like my responsibility is just to sort of keep my eyes open and live it as slowly as possible, because I am aware musical theater does not get off the arts page often. And here we are.”
I can’t wait to see you again.
It’s only a matter of time.
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?
My world turned upside down.
Hamilton is utterly the first musical that blows me away from the beginning to the end and whose lyrics and melodies linger on my mind for weeks. Now after watching this documentary, I'm ready to have the songs on the loop again…Aside from the compelling narrative, I guess one of the enduring charms of Hamilton is due to its objective outlook on history, cuz there is no saint in the show. Hamilton, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, these historical figures who made great contributions to the U.S are also deeply flawed. "Some parts are ugly, some parts are abhorrent, but there's nothing we can do to change those things…There were great things that were done, but there were terrible things that were done. The best to do is to see both of them" this attitude towards history is highly appreciated. Another thing to be recognized, however, is that how much of what we have today in the 21st century is built on the backs of people whose contribution never gets acknowledged, and this marvelous musical credits them with due respect and acknowlegment.
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开始前抓拍一张
Like lmm said in the documentary, "the whole zeitgeisty moment is happening, and we are all grappling with the paradox of knowing tomorrow is not promised, but making plans anyway". I really feel pepped up by his words. Now in retrospect, I recalled the very day watching the stage surrounded by dreamers. Ignorant and innocent as I am, I was invariably overwhelmed the moment I hear the song. I feel the urge to keep my eyes open to observe, to discover, to appreciate, and to embrace my mediocre yet could be possibly more extraordinary life right away.
He wrote his way out. OMG Lin,I love this mate deeply. Honestly I can do nothing but listen to him speaking all day long. He's a genius, no doubt; he has pure love for art u can just see that in his eyes ; and he's got great passion for actually filling his days with endless wonders rather than just stay alive.He's gentle, he can be sweet but he can also be insistent and boldly speak out his mind. And his sensitivity to words——one glance he just can turn those complex articles into his own tunes. And about the true figure Alexander Hamilton.Now I really have the passion,also the courage, to read his biography. He was the one founding father often left behind by us. But Lin told his story, especially as an immigrant. That's a landmark. This documentary is amazing .It shows us how a great was created,all those 6 years of Lin 's life, and how Lin 's own experiences magically parallel Hamilton 's. The film editing is also legendary. Each period is accompanied with corresponding song from the musical, and scenes of the background story, the show itself,and Lin 's life were linked wonderfully together. I can say this from the bottom of my heart that this musical is a landmark of my own life.
